On Tue, 10 May 2005 11:59:48 +0200 Jorge Lanza <jlanza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At 19:50 09/05/2005, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >On Mon, 09 May 2005 18:59:54 +0200 > >Jorge Lanza <jlanza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> As you can see I set the eth2 ip address to 0.0.0.0. However after a while > >> the eth2 returns by it self to the previous configured IP address (i.e. > >> 128.0.1.50). So, in order to make things work in the correct way I have to > >> retype ifconfig eth2 0.0.0.0 and the second time seems that everything > >> works as expected and the eth2 doesn't go back to the previous state. > >> > >> Why does it happen? What can I do? I need the device not to "get out of > the > >> brigde" and reconfigured. I have try to brctl br0 setfd 0 but still have > >> the same problem. > >> > > > >Probably you have eth2 configured in the normal distribution network > >configuration > >and the hotplug scripts are detecting the transition and setting it back. > > > >You need to make sure eth interfaces are not configured by other means. > > Thanks very much, but the problem now is that I don't understand how to do > what you tell me. > Could you give me some hints on it? It would be grateful if you could do so. What distribution of linux are you using? Redhat, Fedora, Debian, Suse?